Sunday Science Talk

10/20/2015

By Peter Kimball

I give a talk about ARTEMIS as part of the Sunday Science Talks series in the McMurdo Station Dining Hall. (photo: Justin Lawrence)

I gave the Sunday Science Lecture yesterday. Riding a wave of enthusiasm from Vickie's talk last week, I talked about the ARTEMIS vehicle and how it fits into the SIMPLE astrobiology science mission. Bill provided nice solid model renderings to illustrate some of the vehicle concepts. Evan and I demoed the actual lighted docking bar during the talk. I really enjoyed giving the talk, and I was pleased by the enthusiastic audience participation when I asked questions like "who believes there is or was at some time life elsewhere in the universe?"

We will be doing another show-and-tell with ARTEMIS after dinner tonight.

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About the Blog

This is the personal blog of Peter Kimball and Evan Clark, following our deployment with the ARTEMIS long-range underwater robotic vehicle to explore beneath the McMurdo Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

Authors

Peter Kimball is an aerospace engineer and field roboticist on the Stone Aerospace ARTEMIS project.

Evan Clark is a computer scientist and field roboticist on the Stone Aerospace ARTEMIS project.

Kristof Richmond is a mechanical engineer and field roboticist on the Stone Aerospace ARTEMIS project.